Is art the highest form of sanity?

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Is art the highest form of sanity? : http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 082851.ece

My comment : Being creative I feel gives reason and helps make many things seem sane, gives perspective to our different minds.!

Don't know about sanity, to me it's surely the greatest value.

I think art is more the first level of insanity. It takes a borderline 'crazy' person to see things that aren't there, to create something out of nothing. An artist sees what isn't, what could be. I don't think your average 'sane' person can do that. It's the little touch of loony that makes it so unique and inspiring.

Seriously profound question. Quick responses.

1. People generally treat me the "sanest" if I am in artist role. There seems to be much more leeway for eccentricity and out of normative behavior . One woman spontaneously kissed me on the cheek yesterday due to a random act of kindness I couldn't avoid making. Better than being eyed with suspicion and fear when not in that role.

2. Not really sure what sanity is to tell you the truth. Have seem stalwarts of society breakdown, social pressures twist them, force them into odd ,sad patterns of behavior they never expected of themselves.-Few years on, formally bright ,shining person broken underneath walking around with facade for expression. Have seen those at the bottom of the so-called social ladder unconsciously content and absorbed in roles. Have seen angry people, sad people, hollowed out people, straw men and women, those caught up in inter-generational chains of action and consequences they do not understand, and will not resolve in their lifetimes, those euphorically in love one week , grief burning their insides out ,the next.

All transient. I guess one aspect of sanity is to be able to draw all this stuff together and make coherent sense of it. Maybe that is what art is , coherence and a means to comprehend and express what normal thinking obviously can not.

Maybe you need to be a little remote from it all to keep a level yourself.

Mathematics a physics is the highest form of sanity.

Art can be either crazy or sane. Look at the works of van Gogh who was a schizophrenic. -Starry Night- is a good example of Vincent in a crazy mood.

ruveyn

Yeh, but look at those stars

Many famous artists were insane. Take a look at Vincent Van Gogh.

it seems to me now that i try to not deny my autism anymore .. i become a little estranged in my language dpt. .. like words used to just pour out .. with hardly any effort at all ... but now .. no matter how i try and restart writing a post .. it feels false and not right .. i feel i lose myself among the words ..

it seems to me .. art is doable both by the sane and the insane .. and maybe van Gogh is an especially cool case .. kind of both sane and insane it seems to me ..

it seems to me .. what ever level or kind of sanity you might have .. it is real difficult hiding it when you do art. art is very true in that sense .. you are kind of very naked and visible when you do art .. i think that is perhaps its greatest appeal ..